"Famma", or Famagh Church,
a parish, in the barony of Gowran, county of
Kilkenny, and province of Leinster, 1 mile (S. S. E.) from Thomastown,
on the road to Innistiogue; containing 128 inhabitants, and comprising
623 statute acres, It is a vicarage, in the diocese of Ossory, forming
part of the union of Thomastown; the rectory is impropriate in the Marquess
of Ormonde. In the R. C. divisions the parish also it is part of the union
or district of Thomastown. Brownsbarn is the residence of John Nixon, Esq.
[From A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837)]